Cloudentity vs. Microsoft Entra External ID

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudentity
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Cloudentity provides a solution for authorization governance automation to modernize applications and secure digital business across an enterprise’s existing hybrid, multi-cloud and microservices infrastructure. The solution decouples identity and authorization and enables declarative authorization via policy-as-code. Organizations orchestrate app, service, api and user-consent on-boarding, centralize fine-grained authorization policy, and gain continuous transaction-level enforcement at…
$0
Microsoft Entra External ID
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft Entra External ID (formerly Azure Active Directory B2C, or alternately, Azure Active Directory External Identities) provides business-to-customer identity as a service. Customers can use their preferred social, enterprise, or local account identities to get single sign-on access to applications and APIs.
$0
per month per active users
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Premium P1 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.00325
per month per active users
Premium P2 (for More than 50,000 MAU)
$0.01625
per month per active users
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsA flat fee of $0.03 is billed for each SMS/Phone-based multi-factor authentication attempt.
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User Ratings
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8.3
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudentity
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Microsoft
It is not easy to calculate the actual ROI due to the difficult quantification of all factors, but it certainly contributed a lot in protecting, monitoring and controlling access to our system. It also made it much easier to detect vulnerable external users with simple and "easy to hack" passwords they use on multiple apps.
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Pros
Cloudentity
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Microsoft
  • Single sign-on simplifies access to your apps from anywhere
  • Strong authentication for your customers using their preferred identity provider.
  • Integrating with social accounts such as Facebook or Google+
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Cons
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Microsoft
  • Troubleshooting diagnostic logs effectively requires VS Code
  • Group and role management requires additional effort
  • The programming model (XML) could use some developer experience love
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Alternatives Considered
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Microsoft
Each one of these alternatives has pros and cons. PingOne from Ping Identity states they "help deliver the secure and seamless customer experience to win battles for customer acquisition, retention, revenue, loyalty, and trust." While that may be the case, they did not fit our needs. We have a complex system and it did not seem to fit into our business.
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Return on Investment
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Microsoft
  • Having monthly active users billing was cost-effective.
  • Helped with the IT support that was already managing the Azure platform of the company; this helped to manage the costs better and optimize them.
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